Gunshots and Turf Wars: Inferring Gang Territories from Administrative Data

• In Event: Political Methodology and American Politics

Brief Overview

In this paper, we show that the frequency and location of shootings are sufficient statistics for the division of territory among gangs under mild assumptions about the data generating processes for gang-related and non-gang related shootings

Authors

• Brendan Cooley, Princeton University

• Noam Reich, Princeton University